mahyarm

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721.
by mahyarm 10y ago
The lack of slack/irc style large chatrooms is what killed fb@work adoption at my work. If fb wants to compete I think they will need to add that.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Is this used in the Windows 10 USB driver, like the windows 8 driver?
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by mahyarm 10y ago
If your a citizen or green card holder you are taxed on your global income even though you don't live there. If you were not a citizen / PR, I doubt you'd be able to legally start a business like that in the USA first. You do
724.
by mahyarm 10y ago
With increased supply come decreased price and increased usage. Uber and airbnb increase the supply of transportation and hotel places in total, decreasing the price for customers and increasing the total volume used.
725.
by mahyarm 10y ago
This is far quicker time to IPO than most startups.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Google's original 'unlimited' was 16MP, and the pixel makes 12MP images, so wouldn't it be within the original limit by default. If the pixel makes 4K videos, then that would be over the original unlimited limit.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
iOS devs have stolkholm syndrome. We deal with all sorts of crap from apple. Like code signing. Or the encrypt-then-compress DRM adding many MB to binary sizes. Or code signing causing pre-main startup times to bloat. Etc, etc.
728.
by mahyarm 10y ago
I think your experience depends on your citizenship. As a canadian the canadian border guards are nice to me. With a work visa, the american border guards aren't as nice. Also the border guards start becoming nicer once they see a h
729.
by mahyarm 10y ago
There is this quote from a honda engineer that said creating the original 70mpg honda insight was a lot harder than creating their roadster / supercar project. So yes it is.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Federal politics is very much like sports, while municipal politics feels like a boring necessary tar pit that sucks up time. These people won't be engaged as retired people, simply because of time. They make the personally rational d
731.
by mahyarm 10y ago
Retried & unemployed people have the time to participate in local politics compared to the employed people with young families. On top of that they have the highest financial incentive to NIMBY to reduce their personal risk in their hou
732.
by mahyarm 10y ago
You can reduce flight count and have the same amount of passengers to have a net gain in efficiency and a reduction in pollution.
733.
by mahyarm 10y ago
Cracking the coding interview trains you for one interview type. Many places do multiple interview types: 1. Coding challenge <- Your interview was mostly this. - Make an object - Make a mini-app - Fix this code - Refactor this thing 2.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
That subset of indians isn't a billion although...
735.
by mahyarm 10y ago
In fremont i dont think its foreign money but indian immigrants working in tech more likely. They are not independently wealthy and income is from the local economy.
736.
by mahyarm 10y ago
Mella-roos can increase property taxes in California too. For example in oakland it adds 0.35% to the tax rate for a total of 1.35%
737.
by mahyarm 10y ago
The real problem is most payments & identity are pull vs push and the username is the password. If they were push, then there wouldn't be customer payment information to steal in the first place. All that would be taken would be
738.
by mahyarm 10y ago
A lot of us grew up in a suburban setting, and did not like it. We moved to an urban setting for a reason.
739.
by mahyarm 10y ago
He did say "or their production software isn't working"
740.
by mahyarm 10y ago
Microservices also enforce boundaries significantly more strongly. A layered monolith can still easily have random people cut across boundaries without you knowing because there are hundreds of engineers all working in the same system. Lar
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You use microservices when your project expands beyond the monkeysphere number where everyone knows everyone else. It allows teams to work in their own world without having to coordinate as much with other teams or people. Microservices are
742.
by mahyarm 10y ago
Fly to canada / mexico and then take a bus?
743.
by mahyarm 10y ago
Youtube videos are a source. One issue I have with them is how high pitched and loud they can be, despite being nice otherwise.
744.
by mahyarm 10y ago
TIFF is typically used as an intermediate uncompressed memory format for almost everything in images. Your png library is probably uncompressing png images into TIFF images internally. Your printer probably translates whatever is given to
745.
by mahyarm 10y ago
Your not paid a little less, your paid a lot less, especially as the years go by. For example: Enter a startup as a sr.eng employee, and you get the same salary that you got working at google. Instead of google equity & bonuses you g
746.
by mahyarm 10y ago
I know pentax is trying to compete with the D800 level of SLR with their K-1, but the price is a few hundred more than the entry level nikon, canon & sony full frame cameras, and that is what they are competing with.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You can easily spin up new corps, but laws are not going to make the structures in between them easy without paying a lot of taxes or equivalent lawyers.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
The technical engine behind it is better, but the UX for using it on a locked phone isn't good. All of my issues are solvable by android, they aren't technically hard. But it's still an issue after all of these years. For me
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by mahyarm 10y ago
like that -> in secret like that The difference is you don't have to play science experiment because you can clearly see what the cause is and how to shut it off. The android battery monitor is ineffective in comparison in my exper
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by mahyarm 10y ago
get china -> get the chinese market In china google play services don't really work due to the GFW, so everything is replaced with some local chinese equivalent. You have android without the google parts for the most part.

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